Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...spring. This is true so far as it concerns the men who are now training for the "'Varsity" and Nine, but it is not true of those outside of them. When our men are working hard to retrieve Harvard's defeats of last season, their training is certainly made less monotonous and more earnest and attractive if they feel that the eyes of all the University are upon them. As it is at present, the 'Varsity row every day, rain or shine, and the Nine practise daily in the Gymnasium, and yet not a man takes enough interest to watch...
...Harvard-Yale race on the Thames, - the event was a thing of profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from out of town was less than 200, and the New Londoners themselves very generally ignored the show. Exactly 162 tickets were sold to the grand stand, which was constructed at a cost of $1,200, and had a seating capacity for 3,000 people. The direct money loss of the managers is known to have...
...amount of preliminary labor never before given to any boat-race arrangements in the United States; and that the running down of the press boat on that occasion (by the only man afloat who refused to obey the managers' regulations) failed to result in loss of life was little less than a miracle. Equally astonishing was the good luck of a year later, when the squall of wind forced the impatient fleet of sailboats to swoop down in the wake of the long-delayed crews, and when it seemed inevitable to those of us in the midst of it that...
...real danger which threatens the visiting public at New London - or which would threaten it were the present managers to be superseded by others less careful and sagacious - is not connected with the observation train, but attaches rather to a theory of management hinted at by the writer who supplied to the Nation its report of the boat race. His suggestion that perhaps the addition of subsidiary 'events' might attract a larger crowd to the Harvard-Yale contest, would, if adopted by the managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen...
...essays must be written upon letter-paper of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom and on each side. The sheets on which the essays are written must be securely stitched together...